The good Cornellians can do: Lindsay Liotta Forness ’84

Lindsay moved to Bermuda ten years ago, accompanying her husband Bob Forness '87, who works in the reinsurance industry. Since then, Lindsay has spent countless hours as what she calls a “foot soldier” in the never-ending effort to remove trash from the island’s beaches.

“This small nation of 60,000 people on 22 square miles needs its volunteers to keep our natural environment healthy,” she explains.

The south shore of Bermuda has many rocky outcroppings which trap plastics, ropes, and other debris. Lindsays says that most of the waste washes up on shore from the ocean—where it is disposed of by marine vessels.

“Most of the plastic is marine trash and NOT from beachgoers,” she says. “The volume of microplastics is growing exponentially. Big culprits are plastic containers from engine oils, marine ropes, and consumer waste like flip flops and plastic bottles.”

Lindsay and fellow members of the International Women’s Club of Bermuda volunteer with a local non-profit, Keep Bermuda Beautiful (KBB). KBB volunteers participate in regular beach clean-ups, armed with black bags to collect trash and blue bags for glass and tin.

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